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Robert Beck Biography Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1959
Education 1993 The Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Studio Program, New York, NY
1983 Bachelor of Arts, Undergraduate Film and Television, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
1973 Yeager Fine Arts, Studio Arts Program, Baltimore, MD
Grants & Awards 1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award 1995 Art Matters, Inc., Grant New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship 1991 1st Prize, Experimental Category: "Visions of US" Contest, sponsored by the SONY Corporation of America and the America Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA 1st Prize, Experimental Documentary Category, Atlanta Film and Video Festival, sponsored by IMAGE Film/Video Center, Atlanta, GA 1989 "Made in 8" Competition, sponsored by THE Kitchen and the 8mm Video Council, New York, NY Solo Exhibitions 2007
dust, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 2006
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England 2005
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 2004 CRG Gallery, New York, NY Art Loves Design, Miami Design District, Miami, FL
2003 Once Across the Mason-Dixon, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 2001 Drawings, CRG Gallery, New York, NY 2000 NatureMorte, CRG Art, Inc., New York, NY Galerie Rainer Bourgemeister, Berlin, Germany
1997 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2006 ARMED - Contemporary Art and Violence, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY 2005 MULTIPLEX 2, Smack Mellon, NY 2004 Editions Fawbush: A Selection, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York 2003 Robert Beck, Russell Crotty, and Shibon Liddel, CRG Gallery, New York 2002
Different Class, Debs & Co., New York, NY 2001
Song Poems, Cohen Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Wildlife, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA human/nature, curated by Jane Harris, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY Destruction/Creation, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY animal magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA 1999 Annie Albers, Robert Beck, Cadie Noland, Joan Semmel and Nancy Shaver, curated by Robert Gober, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY Hindsight: Recent Work from the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago,IL, one person installation with CRG Art, Inc., New York, NY Calendar 2000, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1998 Back-to-Back: Selected Fellows 1990-98, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY Robert Beck and Jasmin Sian, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 8th Biennial Benefit Art Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Images for the Millenium, Long Island Center of Photography, New York, NY Portraits: Gallery's Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY I'm Still in Love With You, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Artists & Books: Picarone Editions 1997, Matisse Museum, Nice, France
1997 Investigations of New Photography and Film: The New God, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Art on Paper: 33rd Annual Gallery Exhibition, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC You Should Know Better/Truth and Artifice in Contemporary Photography, The Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY Sixth Annual Awards Auction & Exhibition, Empire State Pride Agenda, New York, NY
1996 Limited Edition Artists' Books Since 1990, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY What I Did On My Summer Vacation, Benefit Exhibition, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY Sugar Mountain, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, with Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Summer Exhibition, Morris Healy Gallery, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Morris Healy Gallery, New York, NY Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY Faggots: A Communique from North America, curated by Bill Arning , Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, with Morris Healy Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Violence/Business/Power, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.v., Berlin, Germany Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, with Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Benefit Exhibition, Auction and Gala: Who Chooses Who, choice of Robert Gober, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, with Morris Healy Gallery, New York, NY
1992 7 Rooms, 7 Shows, P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute For Contemporary Art, New York, NY Gegendarstellung: Ethics and Aesthetics in Times of AIDS, Kunstverien in Hamburg, Germany, and the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, Switzerland
1991 Saint Vitas Dance, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland Collins and Milazzo's New Era Exhibition, New York, NY ACT UP Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Queer, Butch, Femme..., Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1990 Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York, NY AIDS/SIDA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT Looking At A Revolution, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY
1989 Erotophobia, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY Group Material's AIDS Timeline Touring Exhibition, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Selected Group Video Exhibitions 2005 Multiplex II, ĘSmack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York 2002 Different Class, Debs & Co., New York 2001 Song Poems, Cohan Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York 2000 Nine Years Later ("Girlfriend In A Coma"), Below 54, London, England RGB, Experimental Film, Video and Music Festival, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1999 Pop!, The Lux Center, London, England TELE-vision, University of the Andes, Bogota, Columbia 13th Recontres Video Art Plastique, Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair, France The Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, The New Festival, New York, NY 1998 Almanac: Art On Television, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Cablecast Station Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland Project Screening Room, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA I'm Still in Love With You, Women's 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA
1997
Osnabruck Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
1996 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY Chateau de Bionnay, Lacenas, France Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image, London, England Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Pantelleria Oasi Multimedia: 1st Video Festival Internazionale del Mediterraneo, Fondazio Orestiadi Comune Di Pantelleria, Pantellaria, Italy The New York International Video Festival, New York, NY American Cinemathique, Los Angeles, CA 1994 The 1994 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The New Festival, New York, NY 10th Rio Cine Festival, Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Frameline, San Francisco, CA 12th Annual Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Gay & Lesbian Media Coalition, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Video in the Reagen/Bush Years, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 1991 LA Freewaves: 2nd Celebration of Independent Video, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Cablecast Video: Violence, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Visions of US, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA The Art of Music: 10 Years After, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Video Witness: Festival of New Journalism, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY 1990 The Territory, Southwest Alternative Media Project/Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Houston; Cablecast Commitment, Stedelijk Museum of Art, Amsterdam, Holland The AFI National Video Festival, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA Video and Dream, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The 1990 New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, The New Festival, New York, NY 1989 Made in 8, The Kitchen, New York, NY 1988 The Kitchen Presents, 4th International Video/Television Festival, Montbeliard, France New Works, The Kitchen, New York, NY 1987 New Independent Video, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
Public Collections Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Buhl Foundation, New York, NY J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Long Beach Museum of Arts, Long Beach, CA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | ||||||
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